Global and regional climate modeling and climate process studies, such as climate sensitivity and feedbacks, large-scale topographic forcing in the climate system and numerical simulation of the East Asian summer monsoon and North American monsoon, ENSO and tropical cyclones;

Liang, X., Y. Liu, and G.-X. Wu, 2005: Effect of Tibetan Plateau on the site of onset and intensity of the Asian summer monsoon,Acta Meteorologica Sinica, 63(5): 799-805.(in Chinese with English abstract)